Friday June 8 is World Ocean Day!  World Ocean Day is global day of ocean awareness and collaboration.  In honor of this celebration, McLane has created a plankton coloring mosaic of images collected in local Cape Cod waters by our Imaging FlowCytobot. Download your coloring page here and see if you can recognize the plankton

5 Tips for Drop-in Batteries

  RAS and PPS samplers now have drop-in battery holders for user-replaceable “D” cell alkaline batteries. Sediment Traps have drop-in battery holders for “C” cell alkaline batteries. Whichever battery size, consider these best practices for deploying a sampler using alkaline batteries: • Use only high quality brands. McLane includes one set of Duracell™ batteries with a new instrument. •
Download McLaneTerm to use with your McLane sampler or profiler.  McLaneTerm provides the following: Replaces MotoCross and Crosscut terminal emulation. Ships with new McLane instruments. Operates on both Windows®* and Mac* systems. Works with McLane samplers and profilers that use terminal emulation. Supports firmware updates for all types of McLane controllers. Remote feature allows technical support to see what
As part of National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Regional Cable Array, customized Remote Access Samplers (RAS) and Phytoplankton Samplers (PPS) are installed at the largest volcano off the Washington-Oregon coast (Axial Seamount) to sample hydrothermal vent fluids. The RAS and PPS were modified by Dr. David Butterfield (Univ. of Washington) and engineers at NOAA-PMEL and UW Applied Physics Lab for
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